Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
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I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.
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In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.
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I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
